Nick Sirianni isn’t reaching for the panic button, even with the Eagles staring at a mess that has only gotten uglier under the lights.
After back-to-back primetime beatdowns - first against the Cowboys on Monday night, then against the Commanders six days later on Sunday night - the Eagles are sitting at 2-6 and looking nothing like a team that expected to steady itself quickly. Instead, Sirianni is keeping the same names in place and insisting the answer has to come from the whole operation.
Sean Mannion will remain the offensive coordinator.
“We understand, Sean [and] myself, that when it's not going the way we want it to go, the blame will fall on us,” Sirianni said on Monday. “That is our job.
We truly do feel that way as far as coaches. Whether it is an execution thing, whether it is a scheme thing, whether it is a fundamental thing, whatever it is, it's our job as coaches to be problem solvers.
“This is never just on one person. So, I'm not making any changes there. It is on all of us to figure out how to get things going in the right direction.”
Sirianni also pushed back on any idea that the Eagles are about to make a quarterback switch. Tanner McKee is set to make his fourth straight start after opening this stretch 0-3, and Joe Milton will stay in the background for now.
“Tanner's our guy,” Sirianni said. “We're not making any changes there.”
The head coach has been through in-season upheaval before. He pointed to the 2023 season, when he demoted Sean Desai before eventually firing him weeks later.
But that situation came with the Eagles at 10-3. This one looks very different.
The last time the franchise hit a real low point like this was 2012, when Andy Reid’s team dropped eight straight and Reid eventually lost his job. Sirianni was 31 then, working as an offensive quality control coach on Reid’s next team, the Chiefs.
Reid made a move that season by firing offensive coordinator Juan Castillo, though the Eagles were still 3-3 at the time. That kind of decisive shift is what usually happens when a season starts slipping away.
Sirianni, though, isn’t going there now.
He said there have been changes behind the scenes, but he isn’t spelling them out.
“I won’t get into any of that,” he said. “I don't know if that benefits us, but we'll continue to do the things that we need to put it on the right track.
That's our job. How are we going to be problem solvers as coaches?
That's what we're working on doing.”
He also defended Chris, saying, “Chris is coaching his [butt] off,” Sirianni said. “He's fighting his [butt] off; he's coaching his [butt] off on a daily basis.
You guys don't get to see that. I get it on a daily basis.
You get to see that for three hours on Sunday, but he's coaching his [butt] off, and he's fighting his [butt] off, and I know he's giving the players good tools to use fundamentally and helping them be the best players that they possibly can be. But we all have to be better, and we know that.”
For now, the message from Sirianni is clear: no sweeping shakeup, no quarterback change, no public overhaul. Just a coach saying the fixes have to come from inside the building, even as the losses keep piling up.
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